(n.) A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
(2) The heart of the jungle bush quail is richly innervated.
(3) One little boy grabbed me and pleaded with me, that the Jungle was not a good place, and he didn’t want to be there.” Last month, protesters staged a die-in at St Pancras station in London against plans to clear the area of the Jungle.
(4) They have been in the Jungle for 45 days, and say life has become intolerable.
(5) In fact, in 1993, Dangerfield married Joan Child, a woman 30 years his junior, the owner of Jungle Roses, a national floral distribution company.
(6) Here, abandoned cars don’t just sit and rust, they are swallowed by the jungle.
(7) London's future-soul act Jungle are new at No 7, with another big chart entry for the classic metal act Judas Priest.
(8) A settlement of Temiars, an aboriginal tribe residing in the north-eastern jungles of the Malay Peninsula, was selected for a study of their cardiorespiratory fitness.
(9) As she gazes down from her plane at the sprawling Amazon jungle below, she will hope and pray that, with a number of giant infrastructure projects planned in the region, history is not about to repeat itself.
(10) It was here in 1974 that the heavyweights fought the Rumble in the Jungle under the gaze of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko .
(11) The jungle habitat of the Temuan aborigines harbors a variety of infectious diseases, the most notable being malaria.
(12) Thailand has pressed charges against more than 100 people , including an army general, on counts of human trafficking after dozens of bodies were found in a jungle prison camp earlier this year.
(13) I can see the stripy paws of one of the world's most endangered species bounding unhounded through the jungle.
(14) An endogenous virus-free state has also been reported for three species of jungle fowl and for the B-type viral genes of the mouse.
(15) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
(16) They fight every day, police and jungle people.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Calais migrants: life in the Jungle – video Muslim Hussain says his cousin died two days ago when he fell off a moving train bound for the UK, and he is now trying to work out how to get the body back to their family in a remote region of Pakistan.
(17) The present study sought to determine the effects of such lesions on an operant conditioning task in which the reward was the presentation of one of two conspicuous objects, a stuffed jungle fowl or an illuminated red box.
(18) Natasha Orekhova, 26, a public relations specialist with a real estate firm, stood next to a friend who carried a fork with a pretend snake spiked on its tines, a reference to Putin calling the protesters Bandar-logs, the monkeys hypnotised by a python in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
(19) Commercially available sealed blood-agar plates have been demonstrated to retain their usefulness for as long as 3 months under jungle conditions without refrigeration.
(20) Spectacular outbreaks of yellow fever, such as the one in Ethiopia in 1960-1962 with 15,000-30,000 estimated deaths, still occur in Africa in areas contiguous to rain forest regions where jungle yellow fever is enzootic.
Rainforest
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(2) The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors.
(3) Indonesia has greatly under-reported how much primary rainforest it is cutting down, according to the government's former head of forestry data gathering.
(4) The draw left England facing a trip to Manaus in the humid rainforest where they will play Italy in Manaus on 14 June in their opening Group D match.
(5) A Greenpeace spokesperson : "Asia Pulp and Paper has been responsible for the destruction of vast swaths of Indonesia's rainforests, including areas of habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger.
(6) Counsell says: “If that is done, there is the possibility to increase palm oil production without causing the environmental damage that we’ve seen in Borneo, while bringing much needed developmental improvements to the communities in those regions.” Watch the palm oil debate interactive: From rainforest to your cupboard: the real story of palm oil - interactive The palm oil debate is funded by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
(7) To put it less cryptically, it may well be that a confidential deposition of a relevant witness may short cut months of argument about appropriate processes and save (at least) part of one small rainforest.
(8) The project is also working with the World Bank on an emergency package to stimulate private sector finance for rainforest nations.
(9) Last Thursday, at an event hosted by the Prince of Wales, I set out plans for working with the private sector and rainforest countries so that the timber and foodstuffs we buy do not cause deforestation.
(10) It’s after that notice something missing in the rainforest-like landscape: undergrowth.
(11) Top tip: The Hall of Mosses trail in Hoh is a short, one-mile loop through old growth rainforest.
(12) Some plantation companies, prompted by their customers, have promised to stop destroying the rainforest.
(13) Most of it lives in the Amazon rainforest, home to one in 10 of all the plant and animal species in the world.
(14) Like the strikingly similar landscapes of low wiry vegetation that you can now see in some former rainforest areas in the tropics, these habitats have been created through repeated cycles of cutting and burning.
(15) The prince, who has long campaigned for the survival of rainforests , said that forest protection would be key to a successful deal.
(16) "The longer we all argue about minutiae and statistics, the more rainforest disappears.
(17) Drilling for oil in a part of the Amazon rainforest considered one of the most biodiverse hotspots on the planet is to go ahead less than a year after Ecuador's president lifted a moratorium on oil drilling there.
(18) That is why I established a Rainforests Project to try to promote a consensus on how tropical deforestation might be significantly reduced.
(19) Many Gabonese also pointed out that five days to count 600,000 votes – Gabon is a country with vast rainforests but a tiny population – was excessive.
(20) It was a crucial moment: between 2001 and 2002, 26,000sq km (10,000 sq miles) of rainforest had been lost.